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Rocky Bleier presents ‘The Play’ — a benefit for the APMRF

Please join Rocky Bleier and the Notre Dame class of ’68 at the DeBartolo Center on June 1 and 2 as Rocky presents his One Man show called, The Play.

From Rocky Bleier, “The Play takes us back in time and is a story that touches all the iconic touchstones of our lives; The Civil Rights movement, Notre Dame, Vietnam and in Rocky’s case the 70’s Steelers dynasty.

We start at my dad’s bar in Appleton Wisconsin where I will introduce you to some formative characters, childhood memories, an undefeated high-school career and those years we shared at Notre Dame and the fabled 1966 National Championship amid an era of civil rights protests.

The story continues in a neighborhood Pittsburgh bar and what I remember most that year is that I lost more games in my first six weeks playing for the Steelers, than I had in my entire career up to that point. At that time most people went to a Pittsburgh bar to forget about the Steelers. I didn’t finish that season that year as a lot of us where transported to the battlefields of Vietnam. We go from a firefight, to uncertainty, to the benevolence of an owner who helped enable my grueling rehab.

The third bar finds us in my home, reflecting on those glorious Super Bowl years, a divorce, what it means to be a hero and the randomness of life.”

Times of the show:

Friday, June 1 at 3pm

Saturday, June 2 at 2pm

Attendance is free, but the class of ’68 is asking for donations to the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund.

Make a Gift

Gifts to the Ara Parseghian Research Medical Foundation help fight for the lives of children suffering from Niemann-Pick Type C Disease.